My Digital Thoughts : Shashi's Diary

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

On June 2, Capitol Communicator will hold our fourth annual conference for communicators - PR Summit DC. The full-day event will feature 40 speakers and 19 sessions, covering many of the of the hot topics that challenge communicators on a daily basis.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Growing up in India, I celebrated a lot of festivals Pongal, Ugadi, Holi, Dussera, Diwali. and many others During these festivals special dishes were made, we wore new clothes. We looked forward to other festivals. Friends who celebrated other festivals like Ramzan shared their food and sweets. We look forward to eating the flavorful Biriyani or Hyderabadi Haleem

Also exciting was when friends who celebrated Christmas, shared with us cakes and Plum pudding.

Today, living in the US, love the period at the end of the year where people of all faiths and religions celebrate the holidays as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and of course as a general term "Holidays". We have a nice Christmas "holiday" tree, the kids enjoy looking forward to Santa's visit and open their presents on Christmas Day.

You have to share festivals and appreciate every opportunity to celebrate. What ever you are celebrating this season, Happy Holidays and Wish You a Flavorful New Year!

David goes on to say “ Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, James Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. Forming key partnerships with Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and his wife Dolley, Madison achieved his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic ”

Feeling proud of this fact about James Madison, you look at what Malcolm Gladwell says in his book Blink “ I found that on average CEOs were just a shade under six feet. Given that the average American male is 5’9″ that means that CEOs, as a group, have about three inches on the rest of their sex. But this statistic actually understates matters. In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or over.”

I am still going to take inspiration from James Madison and then I see this article in INC magazine by JOHN WARRILLOWFounder, The Value Builder System

John accepts that he is short but ends the article with “If you’re short, fear not. While you may have an uphill battle for the corner office of a big company, you’re the perfect height to start your own.”

Ok I am confused, USA was built with the force of persuasion and influence of James Madison who according to David was not taller than 5ft 6 but in today’s world leaders have to be tall and if not they should seek to setup their business if they are short. Does this make sense?

Then +RACHEL FEINTZEIG says in a Wall Street Journal article “Aiming for a job in the C-suite? Height helps, according to a new study.”

It is not helpful that USA Today says “ CEOs say being bald doesn’t impede success and, given a choice, it’s better to be bald than short.”

The Economist continues to convince everyone by saying “ The typical chief executive is more than six feet tall, has a deep voice, a good posture, a touch of grey in his thick, lustrous hair and, for his age, a fit body. Bosses spread themselves out behind their large desks. They stand tall when talking to subordinates.”

What’s the point of this post? It seems that the tall folks have a better chance of being CEO’s but them if you are short , don’t despair. Take heart from James Madison and even go and read David.O Stewart’s book. David says James Madison succeeded by bringing people together and partnering with them. Hope to see you in the CEO’s office soon.

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Shashi Bellamkonda Speaker and Digital Marketing Expert is the Chief Marketing Officer of Surefire Social and Adjunct faculty member of Georgetown University. After several years of enriching experience in the hospitality industry which also included being a chef, Shashi transformed his hobby of computers and technology to his career working in areas like Customer service, Program Management, Digital marketing and Social Media.

Shashi is passionate
about helping small business and has spoken on Small Business and social media
tools at conferences like SXSW, IABC, PRSA, and Affiliate Summit. Blogging is a
passion and at
http://www.shashi.co and writes for The Washington Business Journal, blog, examiner.com
and occasionally for techcocktail.com. Shashi speaks at national and regional small business,
communications and marketing conferences. Few examples are SXSW, PRSA Digital
Impact 2010, Optimization Summit, Affiliate Summit, Affcon, All Services Social
Media Council, New Comm Forum (SNCR.org) 2009, American Independent Writers,
NVTC,Tech Council of Maryland, Greater Baltimore Technology Council , DC
Chamber of Commerce, and IABC.